the Protos Type-C

https://petrolicious.com/articles/from-being-hidden-in-berlin-to-racing-on-the-nurburgring-this-rare-protos-race-car-has-some-stories

the 1908 New York to Paris Race

http://vikond65.livejournal.com/364156.html

The French de Dion at start of New York-to-Paris Race on Feb. 12, 1908, in NYC. The car was withdrawn from the race at Vladivostok after 8,653 miles. The three man crew was captained by M. Bourcier de St. Chaffray, official observer for the Paris newspaper, le Matin. With him rode Captain Hans Hansen, an explorer who had offered the benefit of his arctic experience to the French auto firm, and M. de l'Autan, who had been mechanician on the de Dion the previous year durng the Peking-to-Paris race.

http://vikond65.livejournal.com/364156.html

Above, the Thomas Flyer

the Zust and Protos above

Zust above

Motobloc above

http://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/search?page=3&f[0]=mods_subject_topic_ms%3A%22New%20York%20to%20Paris%20Race%2C%201908%22

1908 New York to Paris great race entry, the Protos finally shows up online to show me wth that car was

Found on http://www.autopuzzles.com/

Original photos of this Protos at the start of the race: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-york-to-paris-race-of-1908-great.html

the other entries were the Züst representing Italy, three cars (De Dion-Bouton, Motobloc, and Sizaire-Naudin) representing France, and Thomas Flyer competing for the United States

If the rally race cars of the Paris to Peking, and the New York to Paris races interest you too, here are the Spyker http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/07/1907-spyker-charles-godard-and-jean-du.html

Zust http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/08/zust-from-1908-new-york-to-paris-race.html

and the Italia http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/08/winner-of-1907-paris-to-peking.html

Update Aug 16th: I just found the OldMotor.com has posted a photo taken during the race while they came through Ogden Utah: http://theoldmotor.com/?p=9927

read about the passenger, he was hired by each of the great race entrants to guide them from Ogden Utah to Nevada, as he had been a surveyor for the railway

http://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A169455